Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 115
Meanwhile the stranger, as soon as he found himself alone with his bride, pulled out the half of the ring and threw it into a cup of wine, which he handed across the table.
Who acts: stranger, bride, wine · What happens: find, pull out, throw, hand · To what, where: stranger, half, cup, table
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, bride, wine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 9 found | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meanwhile | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 found | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 found | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bride | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bride | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pulled | punct |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bride | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 pulled | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 half | det |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 pulled | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ring | det |
| 22 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 half | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 threw | cc |
| 24 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 threw | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 cup | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cup | det |
| 28 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wine | case |
| 30 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cup | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 handed | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 handed | nsubj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 handed | nsubj |
| 34 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 wine | conj |
| 35 | across | across | ADP | _ | 37 table | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 table | det |
| 37 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 handed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | stranger | stranger | with stranger's bride; alone, meanwhile, soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 2 | pull out | participle | stranger's bride not said here | the half of the ring | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | stranger not said here | half | into a cup of wine result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into cup=Result | |||
| 4 | hand | past | wine | the table | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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